208 Quotes About Courtroom-drama

Bad judgment in Manistee would haunt him for the rest of his life because he was the only person left alive who knew, for certain, that he was innocent.

The truth continues to be unimportant in this case.

This big city boy is good. I’m going to enjoy this trial.

Your objection is sustained, Mr. Blake. Please refrain from using the words ‘crime’ and/or ‘crime scene,’ Mr. Weaver. These terms call for a legal conclusion that the evidence has not yet established.”Zack almost laughed out loud at Judge Shipley’s ruling on his objection. The jury just heard the trial judge say that there had been insufficient evidence offered, thus far, to establish murder.

If two people were present when a grenade was exploded and one of those people lost his life, which of the two would be more likely to have exploded the grenade, the one who lived or the one who died?”“The one who lived, of course.”“And why do you say, ‘of course?’”“To put this into lay terminology, the one who pulls the pin and throws the grenade has the element of surprise, knows which way he’s going to throw the grenade and approximately how long he has to get the hell out of there.

With over twenty years on the circuit court bench and a neutral position with no skin in the game, Judge Paul Shipley was the wisest man in the room.

Brown-nosing kiss ass! I don’t give a shit; I’m about to get exactly what I want.

At the end of the day, however, these men were scientists. People lie, cheat, steal, even commit murder. On the contrary, science always tells the truth.

Weaver smiled as he remembered, word-for-word, his criminal procedure professor’s ‘three rules’ lecture for criminal defense lawyers: ‘One, get the money up front; two, the client does the time, not you, and three, get the money up front.’ Zachary Blake was a guy who always got paid, one way or another.